S²MARTS Project No. 22-14
Solutions Due: 10 November 2022 at 12:00 PM ET
Project TALX: 31 October 2022 at 3 PM ET
Questions Due: 21 October 2022 at 12:00 PM ET
RFS Release: 11 October 2022 at 12:00 PM ET
Innovator NETWORX: 6 September 2022 at 12:30 PM ET
Coming Soon Notice: 18 August 2022 at 9:00 AM ET
The Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking a prototype that establishes the capability to manage electronic parts across the enterprise. The purpose of this prototype is to grant visibility into the supply chain, enable better supply chain risk management, allow aggregation of demand, improve purchasing power, enable collaborative solutions to obsolescence and other parts related issues, reduce the risk of counterfeit parts, and enable more DoD wide design modernization. EPMS will enable better microelectronics-focused parts selection and management throughout the entire life cycle of an acquisition program. By aggregating part data at the Service and DoD level, the EPMS will provide unprecedented insight into supply chains enterprise wide. Such insight will lead to improvements in traditional and cyber supply chain risk management, hardware assurance, collaborative solutions to obsolescence and other parts related issues, counterfeit prevention, and DoD wide design modernization. In addition, the demand consolidation made possible by EPMS will increase DoD’s purchasing power through economies of scale.
The desired end-state is to build a parts management tool to enable parts management starting at the acquisition program office level and rolling data up through the services to the DoD level.
Currently, the DoD has very limited insight into the electronic parts used by its systems. This results in an inability to manage the supply chain, monitor the industrial base, and effectively manage its electronic parts. The proposed Enterprise Parts Management System (EPMS) prototype will provide the tools needed by acquisition programs and the DoD to better manage their electronic parts across the enterprise, reduce risks, and enable easier modernization.
The EPMS prototype will aggregate design data and parts lists from all DoD systems, pull related data from DoD and commercial sources, and enable parts management at the program level as well as higher echelon offices. The application will require appropriate DoD security and access control due to the compilation of detailed system data and the classification of the systems and their parts. The development of this system is predicated on the use of existing DoD applications and tools where possible. Additionally, there is the possibility of combining the functionality of existing part management related systems into EPMS Proactive electronic parts management, awareness, and security are key elements in the success of this prototype. The prototype efforts will have the capabilities to understand SCRM issues during parts selection, the ability to implement part standardization, the ability to monitor for and track resolutions of DMSMS issues, and the ability to aid in avoiding counterfeit parts Additionally, the application enables management oversight of the parts management activities across at the service level as well as in OSD.
The EPMS Other Transaction Authority (OTA) prototype project is anticipated to be released and to be executed within a 72-month period of performance.